Necktie attachment.



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APPLICATION FILED DEC- 32, 1914.

1,177,832. Patented Ma r.28,1916.

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ELEAZER HUTCHINSON, OF WOLLASTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

NECKTIE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Application filed December 12, 1914. Serial No. 876,955.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELEAZER HUTCHINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wollaston, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Necktie Attachments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap and convenient device whereby so called four-in-hand neckties may be readily attached to collars, and I have particularly in mind to produce an attachment upon which the tie may be tied exactly as if done by hand, thus avoiding the made up appearance which is present in all analogous attachments, so far as I am familiar with them.

A further advantage resulting from the use of my said attachment is in the fact that, by avoiding the passing of the tie around the neck, only about one half as much stock is required for the tie as is ordinarily required for hand-tied oravats.

My invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, Figure 1 being afront side view of a tie made up on an attachment embodying my present improvement; a turn-over collar being indicated by dotted lines in proper relation to said tie and attachment. Fig. 2 is a front side view of the attachment as it appears before the tie is mounted on said attachment and Fig. 3 is a plan View of the sheet metal blank a as it appears when just pinched out, or otherwise formed;

Referring to these drawings, the letter a indicates the body portion of the said blank, the same being preferably pinched out from sheet aluminum, tin or the like material and formed with upwardly extending portions Z)c that are spaced apart, as seen in the drawings, and also with a downwardly extending central portion d which is adapted to be folded over, as seen in Fig. 2, to provide a loop d in which a wire loop or ring 6 may be hinged. The'wire from which the said loop is formed is extended and bent to form an approximately circular portion 6 of such size that it may readily slip over the head of an ordinary collar button, and is then formed into a relatively narrower portion 6 the opening between the portions 2 and 6 being restricted, as at 6 the said restricted opening being somewhat less than the post of a collar button.

When about to attach a tie to the described attachment, the hinged wire member is temporarily opened downward, as seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The tie is then made up on the attachment precisely as if tied as a four-in-hand in the customary way. The hinged wire member is then folded upward against the backside of the made up tie; the ring 6 is slipped over the head of the collar button and drawn downward until the collar button post slips past the restricted opening 6 and into the opening 6 The collar ends are then drawn apart slightly, until extensions bc can be tucked inside the folded collar out of sight,

but leaving a portion of the tie exposed between the ends of the collar, as will be understood by reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings. When thus made up and placed in position on the collar button, and under the collar, the visible effect is precisely the same as if the tie extended around the neck of the wearer under the collar. 7

The wire loop member prevents the attachmentand tie from working downward and the extensions bc, abutting the fold of the collar, prevent the attachment from working upward suflicientlyto release the wire loop from the collar button, yet the device may be readily released by drawing the collar ends apart slightly and withdrawing the said extensions Z c from the collar, when the attachment may be raised and removed from the collar button.

My described attachment may be cheaply produced; ispractically indestructible and it requires only one half as much material for the tie as it requires for ties that extend around the collar and are tied in the customary way.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and wish to secure by Letters,

Patent A necktie attachment, including a member of general triangular formation, with the base of the triangle terminating at its ends in upwardly projecting extensions for 'en-' gaging a collar upon the underside of its turn-over edge at the front, the apex of the triangular shaped member having a looped or eye portion, and a resilient attaching member formed itself, with a loop pivotally received within the aforesaid loop to provide for the turning of said attaching member upwardly in rear of the first referred to member, said attaching member being also,

formed of additional communicating loops of the button stud into the loop ofleast of different widths, an intermediate narrow Width. v communicating passage between'said addi- ELE AZER HUTCHINSON. tional communicating loops allowing of the 5 passing of the post of a collar stud or button Witnesses:

therethrough by the springing apart of the FRANK H. ALLEN, "Walls of said passage and the final lodgment MARION T. FERGUSON.

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